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Rajeev Ram's avatar

Really good. Would love to see a cross-comparison of this with Big 5.

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Maxim Lott's avatar

Interesting. Would be curious to hear more about Lindy, not sure I understand it very well. Something about survival? Survival on an individual level?

Btw, side point: the political compass plottings are a bad joke, and it’s worth taking the Political Compass quiz “as Trump” or “as Harris” and see how far you get from where they put the dots.

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TonyZa's avatar

Marxists and Marxist-Leninists are Hierarchical, very much so in practice but also in theory. The concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat being exercised by the vanguard party is clearly hierarchical.

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A Lucas's avatar

Yes I also noticed that. Revolutions can't be done without a vanguard group of some sort. That is similar for Marxist Leninist and national socialist.

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A Lucas's avatar

I found myself a national socialist taking this test XD, tho my results are also very close to fascism. I think there are non-negotiable values but very few ones, such as that woman is an adult human female.

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Paulo Cesar Ferraro's avatar

The vast majority of people have both egalitarian and hierarchical moral feelings to some degree, and the same goes for almost all other moral dimensions, with only a small minority of people being 100% or nearly 100% committed to just one moral instinct. For example, it is rare to find an individual who does not support legal equality, and thinks that a high-status person (according to whatever characteristic one understands as being responsible for conferring status) should be able to kill a low-status person without suffering legal punishment for it of equal severity to a low-status killer. This is one reason why people support different policies that appeal to different moral instincts, sometimes on the same topic, and one reason why people can change their minds about the same policy.

The primary differentiation for the vast majority of people is the degree of importance they give to one moral instinct versus another, and this can vary according to what is happening in the world and what is being emphasized in the political climate of the moment.

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